They are all actors. Jackson and Sharpton care no more about blacks than White cares about Laura. He was an actor (Steve Urkel) and so are the two men who are supposed to be the face of the “new” civil rights movement (yeah right). This became apparent after the Jena Six issue became a front runner in every National and Local newspaper. You may want to know my utter disgust with ol’ Sharpie and J.J, and it will be obvious before the end of this post, but just to give you an idea, I believe they take advantage of blacks in bad situations for publicity not for the concern of black America. Let me tell you why.
We are having an epidemic in Philly right now. I believe last week the 303rd person was murdered. The murder rate for blacks in philly is 6 times the national average. 30 in 100,00 versus 5 in 100,000. The national black murder rate is 19 in 100,000, 4 times the national average. Now while Mr. Sharpie and J.J are parading around the cameras, getting Don Imus fired, blacks are expiring brutally by the hands of other blacks. As I saw tens of thousands of blacks march on the Jena 6 issue, I haven’t seen a finger being raised nationally against this epidemic. We are dying by our own hands, while simultaneously prisons can’t be built quick enough to house us. Is no one concerned about that. I don’t see these clowns, nor many churches coming together to pray and seek God’s will on this. I guess keep the monkeys in the concrete jungle and let them kill each other off, right? Blacks are busy debating who has the hottest album 50 or Kanye, and we have a national program in place for people to slim down, but forget slimming down, how about trying to stay alive while walking to school. Earlier this year I believe a 28 year old woman was shot and killed trying to get her daughter out of the way of gunfire. We have the elderly blacks locking their doors and not coming outside to even sit on their porch. They are prisoners in their own homes. This shouldn’t be folks. This is unacceptable. Our young people are dying and we are caught up in some plumb foolishness.
So where is Al, on BET, where is Jesse, who knows. While the NAACP is giving out awards for best show, our young men and women are dying and being convicted for life prison terms. You see why the young adults can care less about Civil Rights? We don’t see things getting better through what these people are doing. Why invest my money in these institutions that are only a shell of their former selves? Why should we care about Sharpie and his perm or Jesse and his illegitimate child? Where is Oprah folks? She is building schools in Africa and had the hip hop issue on her show, but what about her own back yard? Things aren’t much better in Chicago either. Ah, but there is hope folks.
Hope is in Jesus Christ. The black church has an obligation to support and come along churches in Philly who have a heart for this. The Gospel is the answer folks. However, that Gospel has to be lived out. We are commanded to provide for the widows and orphans. This stuff takes money and we may have to give up our daily Starbucks to send money, if that is only $20 per month. I will be in the process of researching some churches up there that may need financial support in order to transform their communities. I will post it here in the near future. Instead of building those Gym or aerobics centers in our church (why not go to 24 hours and meet non-believers anyway?) how about we invest that in training up leaders to make an impact for our Lord Jesus? We have to step up folks, if anyone knows of churches holding it down post it here and we can get some type of network started. These people need us, the people who want to see change and are trusting God needs us. Jesus says “what you do to the least of these you have done to me”. Let’s build His Church.
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I may speak somewhat from ignorance, but this reminds me of the transformation that New York City went through. Many people credit Guiliani's policies for the change, but I suggest that the most significant element was the work of God through the local inner-city churches and ministries.
My church has been faithful to send people on foreign missions and we continue to grow in our efforts. Recently, however, we have recognized a shortcoming in our ministry to the more socioeconomically difficult communities in our own town. My church is slightly mixed ethnically, but primarily white. What insight would you have to give to a church like mine to reach out to people in these areas who have physical needs that we may only be vaguely aware of and who certainly have spiritual needs?
I would hazard an initial observation that godly churches already established in those areas should be identified as partners filled with people who have already been working in some way. From my mission experiences we should be careful not to controvert the work of the brothers and sisters that God has already been using there and instead supplement or compliment their efforts.
do you guys have any idea how much money al sharpton makes a year?
Mr woods you said it all , that is what i believe too. THE REVS. ARE ALL FOR THEMSELVES , AND THE BLACK AMERICAN SHOULD WAKE UP. dO THE SEE THE LIVE IN A SLUM WHILE THE REVS. ARE LIVING THE GOOD LIFE THANKS TO THE PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE THEM.
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